Eagle Pass Camino Real Pack Train Silver — Maverick County

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Eagle Pass Camino Real Pack Train Silver — Maverick County

Lost Treasure TX • Maverick County County
Description
Maverick County legend of Spanish pack-train silver along the Camino Real crossing of the Rio Grande — the Old San Antonio Road route through southern Maverick County used since the seventeenth century.
Historical Notes
The Camino Real (Old San Antonio Road) crosses the Rio Grande in southern Maverick County, a corridor traveled by the Bosque-Larios expedition (1675), Alonso De León (1688), Terán de los Ríos (1691), and numerous Spanish entradas. Local tradition holds a French trading post operated near Frenchman Springs northeast of Quemado in the 1720s. After the Texas Revolution, underground trade continued via the Pacuache Crossing smuggler's trail immediately north of the Camino Real until Mexican general Adrián Woll used the route in 1842. South Texas guidebooks link Camino Real crossings to colonial silver and specie caches. Coordinates approximate the historic river crossing reach east of downtown Eagle Pass.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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